Word: mcdonaldization
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...strips are short, though even the longer ones have a strange tendency to feel disconnected from page to page. One of the most cohesive and best of the lot doesn't even have TMCM in it. Instead, Wheeler re-examines the case of the woman who spilled McDonald's coffee on herself and sued, and in the end makes a case for the legitimacy of the woman's lawsuit...
...wither on closer examination. Ted Bundy, one of the coolest criminal customers in recent memory, was reduced to Jell-O in the final days before his execution, sweatily offering up clues to his other killings if only the state would grant him the stay he suddenly, desperately wanted. Jeffrey McDonald, the Green Beret captain famously tried 20 years ago for the murder of his family, was the very picture of the wrongly accused man, until he took the stand and descended into whining and self-pity - pointing a finger with precisely the kind of you're-all-against-me petulance...
Toronto business partners Ian McDonald and Kerry Knoll and a lawyer friend, John Cocomile, had a novel idea. Patent suits are so expensive to litigate that if investors put up money to help independent inventors defend their rights, the inventors would probably be willing to share any award. The three were right on the money. The shareholders in their company, Patent Enforcement & Royalties, which trades on the Canadian Venture Exchange, are entitled to 50% of a $3 million January verdict against Land O'Lakes for infringing a New Yorker's patent of a low-fat coffee creamer. Three weeks...
...men’s 10k classic saw senior Boris Granovskiy finish in 53rd place, with classmate Misha Lipatov and sophomore Ross McDonald in 62nd and 63rd place, respectively...
...Back to the Future Part II (he played George McFly). Unfortunately, Glover had already committed to shooting the film Where the Heart Is and cancelled his appearance at Harvard only two days in advance. “Pudding members pleaded for help from the Lampoon, and staffer Glenn McDonald ’89 immediately went to work,” the Lampy editor writes in an e-mail. “Just 24 hours later, he lined up former Lampoon guest Robin Williams.” Since then, he explains, the Lampoon has done much of the significant guest-relations...